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Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)

Mrs. Robert S. Cassatt, the Artist's Mother (Katherine Kelso Johnston Cassatt), ca. 1889

Oil on canvas; 38 x 27 in. (96.5 x 68.6 cm)

Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1908

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum Purchase, William H. Noble Bequest Fund
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This tender depiction of Katherine Kelso Cassatt (1816–1895), then 73, is the last of four that her daughter completed. Mrs. Cassatt's carefully modeled face and hands contrast with the sketchy, colorful brushstrokes in her shawl and with the rapidly sketched details of her elegant Paris apartment.
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